Bad cereal?

In light of the cereal thread am now wondering what you all consider a "bad" cereal!?

I personally draw the line at Fruit Loops - that coloured stuff is a no go breakfast food for me!

I think most of them are bad, except for weetbix and porridge. I will let DS have some of the nice ones for a treat when he is older though.

I really like All Bran, but it probally has a lot of sugar.

Edited by kellie

I only eat weetbix and porridge (well I will when I can eat wheat again!). DH likes light and tasty and is also pretty keen on piling on the sugar.

I only buy porridge, weetbix and ricebubbles (which they have - if they have - with no sugar with fruit and a bit of yoghurt)
I never have put sugar on top of cereals for them - although their dad has it, they never ask. If they don't know any better, they don't ask!
As a rule of thumb, I try not to buy anything that has over 10 g sugar per 100g but that gets relaxed a bit depending on what it is - yoghurt, mother nature fruit bars etc.. Not that they don't get anything with sugar/salt/fat lol, but I try to have only "good choices" available., And nothing with artifical sweetner in it, so no lite yogurt here.
Sorry off track.
Like Liz, nothing with a "cartoon" on it, and like others have said, anything "coloured" is a no go too. They have their whole lives to eat sh*t, I want to give them good grounding first and breakfast IS the most important meal of the day.

weetbix in our house is so not economical. the kids want too much milk on it and because they eat so slowly all the milk gets absorbed and they want more!

Bizzy - I put hot water on the weetbix first to be all absorbed and then put the cold milk over and you end up using less. We used to have hot milk on ours as kids but I am too lazy to boil milk in the morning so to get the warm feeling of my childhood weetbix I do this. It also uses way less milk.

Further to my earlier post and the other cereal thread we are just weetbix, cornflakes and ricies with the odd nutrigrain. We do cereal of choice in the school hols or if we are going on a trip within reason. Fruit loops are always a no go though and I could count cocopops etc on one hand and not get even half way.

Edited by kiwi2

Mmmmm CocoPops yum yum! "Its just like a chocolate milkshake only crunchy"... well if that doesnt scream unsuitable breakfast food I dont know what does LOL. DH and I used to have them as a weekend treat, in fact DH used to use a mixing bowl cos the regular cereal bowls were too small thank goodness he grew out of that! Would never consider giving it to DS. I will admit to giving him Cheerio's tho, they are no doubt full of sugar but only once a week but TBH DS would probably be just as happy with Ricies, I will get them next time! Staples are Weetbix and Shreaded Wheat with warm milk, no sugar and he absolutely inhales it!

Porridge makes me gag so havent even considered making it for DS ever, maybe I should try those sachets and see if he likes it

Edited by kiwikid

What do I consider a bad cereal?

I don't think any of them are bad as such. Just that there are some you can eat whenever you want and some you should only have as a treat.

We usually have porridge for breakfast every morning with yoghurt and fruit on it. Cooked breakfasts on the weekend (when we can be bothered ).

I've never had Fruit Loops - don't appeal to me at all! But I have been known to engage in the very occasional (it's so expensive!) bowl of Coco Pops - however this seems to be an after dinner snack rather than breakfast! Jude has never had any Coco Pops - just as he doesn't get our after dinner chocolate either We are too selfish to share

One of my gripes though, is with Nutrigrain - which is marketed as supposedly a really healthy cereal. In actual fact, it has almost as much sugar in it and no more iron in it than Coco Pops.

There really aren't alot of cereals that aren't c&*p! Even Weetbix, cornflakes are all highly processed.   That doesn't mean I don't eat them though. I do usually try and go for a muesli.

Delli wrote: One of my gripes though, is with Nutrigrain - which is marketed as supposedly a really healthy cereal. In actual fact, it has almost as much sugar in it and no more iron in it than Coco Pops.

I didn't believe you with this so looked it up - YIP same amount of iron! I am quite amazed. cocoa pops has 25% more sugar though. But nutrigrain has 10g m ore salt. very interesting!